Another "Maiming" class?

[Shiroe]

dragoon glamour (best class glamour of ffxiv) must never be shared with other classes xD

and be happy your the only class rolling on your gear in savage xD

[Seraphor]

NIN/BRD/MCH all in Scouting, and DRG/MNK/SAM all in Striking would make for a nice set of triplets. But new jobs would disrupt that anyway.
Besides, a DRG in a yukata or a MNK in heavy armour would be weird. Not to mention a Ninja dressed up as some flamboyant drag queen.

I think I’d rather we just got new jobs that fit into Maiming and Scouting.

My personal hopes for the next two expansions are as follows:

Magitek Knight: Blue Magic & Gunblade wielder, closest thing to a ‘Magic Tank’. Gains job gauge by getting hit to power Blue Magic.
Geometrist: Healer that uses ground-based aetherprobes to deploy AoE healing fields with terrain specific bonuses, Calculator/Geomancer combo.
Dancer: Scouting gear user that wields Chakrams with positionals, some token ranged attacks (like a boomerang) and debuffing dances. Sort of an opposite-Bard.
Breaker: Maiming class that deals Blunt damage, wielding Maces and/or Hammers. Uses ramping-up combos like Monk with a stackable Dark Arts style mechanic.

[Jandor]

Dragoon and Ninja (and every other job) can already dress like a total weirdo though.

More jobs being added would throw the nice set of 3's out of sync, still would be a better situation than now though.

4 tanks (assuming extra tank in 5.0)
4 healers (assuming extra healer in 5.0)
3 casters
3 dps
3 other dps

Is still a lot nicer than:
4 tanks
4 healers
3 casters
2 dps
2 other dps
1 solitary dps
another 1 solitary dps

[Seraphor]

Dragoon and Ninja (and every other job) can already dress like a total weirdo though.

With glamour, by choice.
But until you reach higher levels you're limited to job and type specific gear.
Iron works and Shire gear for example.

[Ordoric]

dancer would likely share gear with scouting class

[Seraphor]

Axing the suffixes does not remove armor classes; it just means you don't see "of fending" at the end of the name of every plate set...

So how do you tell them apart?

[Shurrikhan]

So how do you tell them apart?

One's visually much more armored than the rest and has far higher defense.
One would seem to provide more freedom of movement and does NOT have the stats used by the ranged classes.
One bathrobe is lighter colored or more flowery in design and has Mind instead of Det.
I.e., the same way you tell them apart in any other MMO.

[Seraphor]

One's visually much more armored than the rest and has far higher defense.
One would seem to provide more freedom of movement and does NOT have the stats used by the ranged classes.
One bathrobe is lighter colored or more flowery in design and has Mind instead of Det.
I.e., the same way you tell them apart in any other MMO.

How do you tell them apart in the menu, if they all have the same name?

Currently we have:
Ironworks armour of fending
Ironworks armour of maiming
Ext.

[Shurrikhan]

How do you tell them apart in the menu, if they all have the same name?

Currently we have:
Ironworks armour of fending
Ironworks armour of maiming
Ext.

I guess you might have to come up with more than a single word for armor?
...Like, again, most MMOs?

It's really not much a brainscratcher. If you have suffixes, you can skip common sense means of differentiation. Without them, you're limited to common sense means of differentiation. ...That still leaves all within the domain of common sense.

[Seraphor]

I guess you might have to come up with more than a single word for armor?
...Like, again, most MMOs?

It's really not much a brainscratcher. If you have suffixes, you can skip common sense means of differentiation. Without them, you're limited to common sense means of differentiation. ...That still leaves all within the domain of common sense.

So... why are we getting rid of suffixes again?
For cosmetics?